I don’t use knives. Part of my marriage contract. But cars? I bought a cheap Subaru, leftover model, some 13 years ago for under 15 thou and have been using it with no problems ever since. And, in passing, the Lexus (Japanese0 is much better than That Other Class Car from Germany. I like to buy Japanese things because I think we owe it to them for having beaten them up in WWII.